Reminds me of an ancient Irish quatrain, discovered on a pauper's tombstone, excavated next to a lonely hermit chapel near Dingle, Co. Kerry:
Deireadh Fómhair* dark o'night,
waked from compline to lauds,
Uranus shineth bright,
aye, the whole world be in blight.
*
Harvest-end/October
Written by one of my fifth cousins, 12 times removed.
ReplyDeleteHaha - he must be related to me.
DeleteIndubitably.
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